Crossword for Wed, 11/Mar/2009

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Across
1: Circle sections

5: Pete Rose had 4,256 of them

9: Sigma Nu, for short

13: Rich soil

14: Disliked insect

16: Hideaway

17: 'Don't stop'

18: Dogcatcher's quarry, at times

19: Prefix with European

20: Motionless

22: Tried

24: Abrupt bit of thunder

26: Barbershop sound

27: Tax twice

31: Rewrite for a film, say

34: Feed one's face

35: Locales

37: Slow to act

39: Many a retired thoroughbred

41: Many a 'Mad' article

43: 'Aeneid' city

44: ___ firma

46: Scrapes and scratches

48: Family

49: Gets closer to

51: Feature of some doors

53: Pike's 'lung'

55: Wart giver of folklore

56: Extravagant

61: Three-note chord

64: Lassoer's cord

65: Valuable find

67: Very top

68: Assist larcenously

69: Better protected

70: Identical

71: Where oysters grow

72: Grandmother, affectionately

73: Sow's sustenance
Down
1: Help for the hapless

2: Word with beer or cellar

3: Lampoon

4: Appears suspicious

5: 9 - 5, e.g.

6: Greek letter

7: Like lemons

8: Improvises like Ella

9: Impudent

10: Harangue

11: Subordinate staffer

12: Trampled (on)

15: 'Laughing' predator

21: Glasgow girl

23: Dress design

25: Enlivens (with 'up')

27: Unused portion

28: Word with worm or moth

29: Bread pieces, to fondue

30: Bend a bit

32: Newsstand purchase, perhaps

33: Fairy tale creature

36: Ruing the run, perhaps

38: Youngster

40: Some police tactics

42: Loafer inserts

45: Like the Atacama

47: Position

50: Narrow incisions

52: Bedevil

54: Ship's positioning system

56: Excite, slangily

57: Pajamas cover

58: Mocked by imitating

59: Soft seat

60: '___ Cowgirls Get the Blues'

62: BB's and bullets

63: Like one end of a pool

66: Long time




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